buku

buku v4.9 release notes.

• fixed profile detection for multiple Firefox installs (#711)
• added option --offline to add a bookmark without web connection
• added a mini-guide for quick keyboard access to the bookmarklet
• support environment variable NO_COLOR
• fixed HTML encoding detection (#713)
• fixed Windows profile detection (#683)
• support python 3.11 (support for python 3.7 removed)
• fixed readline internal error on Windows (#704)

buku v4.8 release notes.

• support Vivaldi browser
• better XBEL compatibility
• check for empty search results in piped operations
• remove python 3.6 support, add 3.10
• API changes in bukudb (#660):
  • bookmark data tuples returned from methods get_rec_all()
    & get_rec_by_id(), now have user-friendly properties
    (id, url, title, desc, tags/taglist, immutable;
    as well as for raw DB fields – tags_raw, flags)
  • methods get_rec_all(), list_using_id(), searchdb(), search_by_tag(),
    search_keywords_and_filter_by_tags() & exclude_results_from_search()
    are now guaranteed to return a list (empty if no data is found)
  • methods get_rec_id(), get_max_id() & add_rec() now return None as
    the "no ID" value
  • methods add_rec(), update_rec() & edit_update_rec() now treat the
    value of immutable parameter as a boolean (the default/noop value for
    update calls is None)
  • a FIELD_FILTER dictionary is introduced that contains fields formatting
    description; also, in format_json() (and print_json_safe()), the output
    format now matches the one described in CLI help
• IMPACT: If you have a local repo clone, remove .tox/ subfolder if it's there
  before you run tests for the first time

buku v4.7 release notes.

• support XBEL export/import (#569)
• support for Microsoft Edge bookmarks (#585)
• block web fetch on import
• many bukuserver fixes (#543, #545, #547, #548, #553, #554, #559)
• import nested directory names as tags on html import (#539)
• fix slow/failed markdown import (#538)
• fix SSL certificate identification not working on macOS (#528)
• import tags from markdown (#523)
• fix broken pipe error with oil (#520)

buku v4.6 release notes.

• use textwrap to wrap comments and tags when printing in terminal
• show listing start and end index over prompt in interactive mode
• option --nostdin: don't wait for input (must be first arg) (#513)
• user-friendly prompt message when waiting for input in non-tty mode
• several test framework improvements

What's in?

• Fix encryption and decryption (#480)
• Fix Wayback Machine API query
• Support wayland native copier wl-copy
• Add bookmarklet for bukuserver (#385)
• Delete by tag without prompting for each bookmark (#458)
• Fix issue with utf-8 characters in bookmark titles (#456)
• Fix reomve all tags from prompt (#467)
• Example to fuzzy search and preview in Quickstart section
• Replace debug option -z with -g
• Support python 3.9, retire python 3.5

What's in?

• optionally specify output file with --json
• confirm auto-tag generation in chatty mode
• unblock GUI browsers when running on WSL
• handle up to 10 server redirects (#452)
• fix issue with reverse proxy (#435)
• use ImportError instead ModuleNotFoundError (#437)
• import pyreadline on windows (#441)
• auto-generated package refresh

What's in?

• Project renamed to buku (small b)
• Export tags in markdown format as comments
• Tag support for Org import/export
• Better Windows 10 support
• Reverse proxy support for bukuserver
• Config OPEN_IN_NEW_TAB for bukuserver
• Documentation updated
• Fix Firefox default profile detection
• Fix export to DB failing after search
• Fix broken prompt colors
• User agent updated

What's in?

• Import firefox-exported json
• Fix auto-import for firefox
• Fix write to GNU Screen paste buffer
• Some CVE fixes

This is a minor release that fixes broken prompt due to PR #373.

This is a minor release with a single fix on top of v4.2 to address a packaging problem.

What's in?

• Disabled appending tags from page on update
• Improved Windows color support using colorama (optional dep)
• New format option to show only title and tag
• Python 3.4 is EOL, support discontinued
• Several fixes and code refactor

What's in?

• Show records in pages with option -p (works with -n, default 10)
• Enhanced clipboard support: xclip, tmux, GNU Screen, Termux
• Prompt key O works with search results along with GUI browser toggling
• Search by taglist id with prompt key g
• Multiple fixes

What's in?

• Set number of search results per page (default 10)
• Retrieve description and tags from page, if available
• Visit cached version on Wayback machine
• Export works with all search options now
• Changed user agent to Firefox on Ubuntu
• Several dependencies made required for installation
• bukuserver will use Flask-Admin

Note: bukuserver needs to be installed from PyPi.

What's in?

• A self-hosted http server, bukuserver, that exposes core functionality
  • browsable frontend on a local webhost server
  • flask default cli interface is used instead custom one
  • handle not only api but also html request
  • statistic page
  • CRUD on bookmark
  • replaces the earlier api module
  • needs to be installed from PyPi for the time being
• Import complete folder hierarchy as tags during auto-import
• Merge tags on import even if bookmark URL exists
• Orgfile import/export
• Show bookmarks to be deleted before deletion
• Merge tags during import if bookmark exists
• Escape regex metachars in regex input

What's in?

• Exclude keywords in search (keyword filtering)
• Search and filter by tags
• Order search results by number of keyword matches
• Copy URL to clipboard
• Prompt shortcut 'O' to override text browsers
• New official packagers: Fedora, Gentoo, OpenBSD, openSUSE

What's in?

• Skip bookmark addition if edit is aborted
• Use urllib3 for handling http connections everywhere
• Fix auto-import on FreeBSD
• Generate packages for openSUSE Leap 42.3

What's in?

• Buku now has its own user agent
• Search works with field filters
• Edit the last record with -w=-1 (useful when adding bookmark from GUI)
• Support for Chromium browser
• Colors disabled by default on cmd (Windows), option --colors has to be used
• Get default Firefox profile name from profiles.ini
• Bash scriptlet to autogen records for testing
• Some optimization in add record and suggest tags
• A fresh utility Pinku to import Pinboard bookmarks to Buku

What's in?

• Export bookmarks (including specific tags) to Buku DB file using --export
• Option --import can merge Buku DB files now, option --merge is retired
• Option --suggest now works at prompt as well
• Auto-import issue when Firefox is not installed fixed

This is for all purposes the same as release v3.3. We had to re-upload a new version to PyPi and hence the new tag. Functionality remains the same.

The tagline is changed to - Powerful command-line bookmark manager.

What's in?

• Auto-import (--ai) bookmarks from Firefox and Google Chrome
  • Unfortunately, the feature breaks if Firefox is not installed. This is fixed in master. Till the next release (v3.4), please use master or install Firefox.
• Support custom colors (--colors)
• Search multiple tags (with exclusion)
• Timestamp (YYYYMonDD) tag in auto-imported bookmarks
• Enable browser output for text browsers
• Documentation in RTD (http://buku.readthedocs.io)
• Integrated flake8 and pylint in Travis CI
• Integrated PackageCore to auto-generate packages in Travis CI